[Mugen C]

Hi There,
As subject, it has been 2 days that I've spent, :x
trying to get the onboard NIC (3C940-MV) working with my W2K & XP-PRO.

Downloaded the latest drivers from ASUS (couldn't find anything from 3com)
W2K didn't even picked it up although I have pointed it to where the *.inf was located.

In XP-PRO, I was able to forced the driver to be installed manually, but
it connected for 1 min, then it became disconnected by itself.

I updated the BIOS on the M/B thought that could help, but still no luck!

What so funny is, I tried to disabled the onboard NIC and throw in a Intel PRO100 Server Adapter, it didn't even see it.

Any ideas?
Anyone using the same M/B (ASUS P4P800 Deluxe) here and managed to get the onboard NIC working?

Thanks for any inputs!

regards,
Mugen C

[mytheone1989]

I am using the Asus P4P800 non/deluxe but they are basically the same except for the IDE RAID controller on the deluxe. I use windows 2000 and have never had any of the problems you are facing. However, I would check in the BIOS whether the onboard LAN adapter is set on auto, enabled or disabled. You should set it to enabled. If all does not go well, you can reformat and reinstall windows or another operating system. Usually reinstalling windows helps. Windows is usually the source of most errors.

[Tomay]

It's been a while since I installed my mobo and I use 44 version drivers. I could remember that there was a catch.

When you unzip the drivers go to the folder called \english
in there you'll find a file demo32.exe and select the file english.dbd and click on open.

You'll see a nice screen called 3c2000 Installation.

Choose "NIC Software" (top right)
and then "Install NIC Driver" (bottom left)

That's all

[Mugen C]

Hi Tomay,
You are amazing! It works like a charm now!
2 Thumbs Up for you!

Thanks for everyone's input!

regards,
Mugen C

[Tomay]

Glad I could help.

[Mugen C]

BTW, on a separate issue...
Do anyone of you able to run Just 1 pc DDR with that board instead of 2?

For testing purpose, I ran my box with 1 pc of 512 DDR 400, and the performance has drop quite a bit, especially during system boot up...
Once I put back another pc of RAM, the speed was way better.

Did that happen to any of you?

regards,
Mugen C

[Tomay]

If you're using two sticks of ram in first and third slot it runs in dual channel mode which is aprox 2x faster.

[blkt]

Tomay,

So that I understand, Are you using drivers dowloaded from Asus or from the install cd?

[Tomay]

I always use the ones from the asus site and I update them regularly. (bios, lan, sound, intel chipset drivers...)

It works best for me that way.